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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...child labor by the companies that make Harvard apparel will cause us to falsely clear our consciences because it will do harm rather than good. The ban would deprive poor kids of much-needed sources of income, forcing them to either "rummage through rubbish heaps" or seek a job with "some other probably more exploitative local manufacturer (over whom Western public opinion holds little sway)." Almost all garment factories, globally, manufacture clothes primarily for "Western" firms--the kind that are Harvard's licensees--whether those factories are owned directly by the firms, or whether they are merely "subcontractors" who sell...
According to Hrones, Harvard policymakers--who he defined as the President and the Corporation, as well as the administration and the Harvard Alumni Association--only give "lip-service" to important issues in higher education and seek complacent candidates for the Board of Overseers...
...violence, and ordered them to pay nearly $86,000 to the abortion clinics where they protested. The campaigners vow to appeal, but the case looks likely to open the legal floodgates. ?With a verdict in their favor,? says TIME Chicago bureau chief Wendy Cole, ?the plaintiffs can now seek a permanent nationwide injunction? -- which would prevent the Pro-Life Action League and Operation Rescue from protesting any clinic in the country...
...time, advocated negotiating with Catholics and for a while was shunned by his fellow paramilitaries. Gradually Catholic and Protestant parties with close links to terrorist groups began adapting a more conciliatory line. Too many lives had been lost, too many years were spent in prison, not to seek some sort of settlement. Besides, many of the hard-line leaders were moving into their 40s, with wives, children and a powerful desire to join civilized life. In a sense, violence was its own antidote...
...fallen in love with a man--Jerry Springer. Whether you seek bare breasts, gratuitous violence or insightful social commentary, Springer's show delivers on a daily basis...